Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Augustino Sandino, the Nicaraguan "rebel" leader, in whose suppression the U. S. Marines have been engaged for nearly two years, had at last become discouraged and had "disappeared;" that his forces were retreating from Nicaragua toward the Honduran border. Two days after this Wilbur report came news that a squadron of five Marine airplanes had thoroughly "strafed" a rebel camp, near where Nicaragua ends and Honduras begins. ¶ In President Coolidge's name, congratulations were cabled to President Charles Dunbar, Burgess King of Liberia, on the 81st anniversary of that Republic's independence; and to President Senior Augusto...
...British carrier (Glorious, Furious, Courageous) is so big or so fast as the U. S. Lexington, Saratoga. The Japanese Akagi and Kaga would be outdistanced in a day. Carrying some 76 planes, the Lexington and Saratoga could steam to join the fleet in midocean, send out a battle squadron and keep a strong unit for self-defense...
...decorous novelty was the joint presentation of a U. S. husband & wife, Vice-Admiral & Mrs. Guy Hamilton Burrage, he commanding the U. S. European Squadron. Other U. S. males in attendance peered from a distance at courtesying wives, daughters...
Newsgatherers scoured the Midwest for corroboration of all this exciting news. Governor A. G. Sorlie of North Dakota reported that his State would send a motor squadron and that he would lead it. Chairman William Hirth of the Corn Belt Federation reported from Des Moines, la., that the 1,000,000 farmers represented by himself and colleagues would "make a last stand for equality of opportunity . . . at Kansas City"; that if either Mr. Coolidge or Mr. Hoover were nominated, it would "result in a wholesale bolt of the party by the farmers...
...years between now and his accession to the throne, he studiously widens the range of his interests and information, and deliberately scans his empire for creative brains-brains in out-of-the-way places, brains on the make-he could bring together a sort of spiritual squadron that could produce an incredible advance in the intellectual, literary, artistic, scientific, and inventive life of his people...